SINCE 1828
adverbialize
transitive verb
ad·ver·bi·al·ize
variants:
also British adverbialise \ (ˈ)ad-¦vər-bē-ə-ˌlīz 
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adverbialized;
adverbializing;
adverbializes
Definition of adverbialize
linguistics
: to create an adverb from (an adjective, a noun, etc.)
As noted earlier … Roumanian does not adverbialize adjectives in the lexicon, but instead simply uses adjectivals freely in modifier function …— Frederick Browning Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, 1984
Other Words from adverbialize
adverbialization
also British adverbialisation \ (ˈ)ad-¦vər-bē-ə-lə-¦zā-shən
, -ˌlī-¦zā- \
noun
, -ˌlī-¦zā- \
noun
The accusative case was the primary case used for adverbialization of nouns …
— Roger D. Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, 2008
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